Set of Four Renaissance Wrought Iron Grilles
GERMAN/AUSTRIAN, circa 1580-1620
37 3/4 x 37 3/4 in
96 x 96 cm
96 x 96 cm
5999
Provenance
Brummer Gallery Inc. New York 19th October 1935. JWHA Inv. No. 2275.1-4. John Woodman Higgins Armoury Collection.
Each square of scrollwork with chiselled leafy embellishments centred by a seraph. For a related grille see Peter Krenn and Walter J. Karcheski Jr., Imperial Austria: Treasures of Art, Arms...
Each square of scrollwork with chiselled leafy embellishments centred by a seraph.
For a related grille see Peter Krenn and Walter J. Karcheski Jr., Imperial Austria: Treasures of Art, Arms and Armour from the State of Styria (The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (February 1992), figures 94/95, p. 95 and C. Ffoulkes 1913, p.61, fig.43.
[Skylight Trellis, 1574. This trellis once hung above the irongate (Eisernes Tor) at the southern entrance to the city of Graz. The five decorative zones of the gate are filled with Renaissance spiral motifs. The Habsburg double eagle, cut out of iron sheet and painted gold bronze, is in the central section; two Styrian panthers are in the flanking sections.]